Pile rug and process of making the same



Sept. 9, 1930. w. LEMBKE 1.775.533

- PILE RUG-AND PROCESS or MAKING THE sun:

Filed Sept. 27, 1928 A1; ATTORNEY Patented Sept. 9,

UNITEDJSTATTES WILLIAMLEMIBKE, or AMSTERDAM, new YORK, Assienon, BY- Mnsnn Assreniymnrs,

'ro BIGELOW-SANFORD CARPET 00., Inc, CORPORATION or nnssncrrnsnrrs l i a i r ms RUG Ann :eiaocnss or MAKING THE SAME I Application filed September 27,?1 928. Serial No. 308,808.

Thepresent invention relates to a process of making rugs of the tapestry type having a pile surface and-a bordered design and to an incomplete rug made by such process. An object of the invention isto provide for making pile surfaced tapestry rugs with bordered designs with less labor and at less cost. Another object of the invention is to reduce the labor required in coloring the pile-forming yarns of pile-surfaced tapestry rugs having end border designs. 7

To these and other ends, the invention consists of certain parts and combinations of parts, all of which will be hereinafter depointed out designs.

Tapestry rugs are formed generally by chain warps and transverse shots or weft threads interlocking With the chain warps and also with the piles-forming yarns providing the pile surface of the rugs.

I-Ieretofore in making these rugs it has been customary to color the pile-forming yarns for the complete length of the rug to be woven, or, in other words, each pile-forming yarn has a color combination for the entire length of each plurality of rugs. This has two disadvantages; first, it requires a coloring device of asize to color or print the pile-forming yarns for the entire length of a rug to be formed, and, second, for rugs of dif ferent lengths, yarn coloring or printing devices of different sizes are required.

According to this invention, the size of the yarn coloring or printing device is reduced so that the labor of producing such coloring or printing device is less and rugs of various lengths may be woven from yarncolored or printed by one yarn printing or coloring device.

In carrying out this invention, a design is selected for the rug having ts portion w-z intermediate the end border portions a-b,

tions my, g z while maintaining asym metrical design. a a l a A printing or coloring device is now made i in the usual manner to color the pile forming yarn for producing the end borders a-iband c0Z and a single intermediate repeatable portion 50 4 or y2 (both being the same). This coloring device is now employed for coloring a drum. of yarn from which a plurality, of rugs can be made,uthe yarn on the drum being colored so thattheyarn for pro ducing each single repeatableportions wy org-.f-e will be separated from the othersby the colored yarn for producing thetwo por- ATENT OFFICE j c -cl, comprising duplicate or repeated por 7 it tions a--b and cd, orinother words, the

colored portions for producing each two portions a-b and cdwill be spaced from like portions and will be separated by colored portions for producing only one of the repeatable designs ac -y or iy-e. Thepile forming yarn is woven in rugs on a tapestry loom of any suitable construction, The border portion a-b is first woven, then the portion my is woven. When the portion ave-y is completed the pileforming yarnbeam or drum is turned 7 so as to produce a loope in each yarn on the} drum, this loop taking up or eliminating fromtherugs that portion of the yarn which would produce a portion c d and afb. The weaving is then continued and the portion y e, a repetition of the portion 00 -3 and the portion cd, is woven toproduce a complete rug. Thisi's continueduntil the yarn on the beam or drum is-completely used. If a longer rug is desired, the repeatable portion (m g or y-z) is repeated any desired number of times, the portions-Md and ab being eliminated each time preferably by looping the yarn'and the portions c-d being woven when the desired length of rug is obtained. After so it the rug is completed, the looped portions 0 1. A method of making bordered pile-sur faced tapestryrugs with a repeated design intermediate end border designs which comprise coloring the pile-forming yarn from which a plurality of rugs is produced at spaced portions so that from each of such spaced portions the pile surface of two end border designs of opposite ends of two rugs may be produced, coloring those portions of the pile-forming yarn between each two end border design-forming portions with a single design to be repeated in the intermediate portions of the rugs, weaving the pileforming yarn into rugs, and during such weaving, eliminating some of those portions colored to produce the pile surfaces of two border designs of two adjacent rugs so that the intermediate design is repeated in the intermediate portions of the rug whereby a complete continuous body between the end borders is produced.

2. A method of making bordered pile-surfaced tapestry rugs with a repeated design intermediate end border designs which comprise coloring the pile-forming yarn from which a plurality of rugs is produced at spaced portions so that from each of such spaced portions the pile surface of two end border designs of opposite ends of two rugs may be produced, coloring those portions 01 the pile-forming yarn between each two end border design-forming portions with a single design to be repeated in the intermediate portions of the rugs, weaving the pile-forming yarn into rugs, and during such Weaving, formin loops from some of those portions colored to produce the pile surfaces of two border designs of two adjacent rugs so that the intermediate design is repeated in the intermediate portions of the rug, and cutting off the loops whereby a complete continuous body between the end borders is produced.

3. An incomplete bordered pile-surfaced tapestry rug having end border designs and a repeated design intermediate the end border designs, said rug having loopsin the pileforniing yarn between the repeated intermediate designs, colored the same as those portions of the pile forming yarn that produced the end border designs and projecting beyond the surface of the ru WILLIAM LEMBKE. 

